Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Levush Ateret Zahav and Levush HaButz VehaArgaman - Prague, 1609 - Signatures and Glosses

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Levush Ateret Zahav Gedola, on Tur Yoreh De'ah, and Levush HaButz VehaArgaman on Tur Even HaEzer, by R. Mordechai Jaffe. Prague: R. Moshe son of R. Yosef Betzalel Katz, 1609. Second edition, printed in the author's lifetime, with his additions.
Handwritten glosses from various periods. Signatures on the title page, in early Ashkenazic script, of R. Yitzchak HaKohen (an early member of the renowned Rappaport family of Kohanim), who signed: "Yitzchak HaKohen… of Port Rappa", "Yitzchak Katz… Port Rappa".?Several ownership inscriptions (dated 1839) of R. Yosef Heiselberg of Yavorov (Yavoriv), son of "The brilliant Torah scholar R. Yosef Moshe of Nemirov" and Sambor - R. Yosef Moshe Heiselberg of Yavorov son of R. Yosef Moshe Heiselberg (Eisenberg) Rabbi of Nemirov (Nemyriv), son of R. Yitzchak Charif Rabbi of Sambor (Sambir; 1740-1813) and son-in-law of R. Moshe Tzipes (brother-in-law of R. Betzalel Margolies Rabbi of Ostroh and R. Mordechai Margolies Rabbi of Satanov). R. Yosef Moshe, whose signature appears in this book, is mentioned on the title page of Hilcheta L'Meshicha (Jarosław, 1908), authored by his son R. Yitzchak Heiselberg of Yavorov.
192; 116 leaves. 29.5 cm. Condition varies. First and final leaves in fair condition. Many leaves in middle in good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Dampstains. Worming to several leaves at beginning and end of volume. Tears to first title page, affecting border, repaired with paper. Tears to final three leaves, affecting text with loss, repaired with paper. Stamps. Old binding, broken and detached.
See: Stefansky Classics, no. 159.
Classic and Miscellaneous Books - Responsa and Novellea, Halacha and Ethics
Classic and Miscellaneous Books - Responsa and Novellea, Halacha and Ethics